Where will a hydrophilic amino acid usually position itself during protein folding?

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11 January, 04:42

Where will a hydrophilic amino acid usually position itself during protein folding?

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Trinity Garza · Answer 1

A hydrophillic amino acid will have it's functional group positioned where the water is. Generally this will be outside of the polypeptide, and the amino acid will interact with polar entities, this will include other amino acids that match it's polarity.